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[#DefundMilitary & #AbolishNATO ☭👨🏻‍🌾🔭🌏 🇨🇳 @radikaldb]

https://t.co/OIz2LIiJX1 Now watching the always excellent @yugopnik now of the @TheDeprogramPod podcast as well as his own Yout*be channel on the @paulm_yt channel. Everyone should watch this & those interested such as comrades in @communistsusa we should get organize making a

[Iran Observer @IranObserver0]

⚡️BREAKING: Yemen's Blockade of Saudi ports has Forced Six ships to Avoid docking in Saudi Arabia

Some of the Ships include:

Agios Gerasimos
MICA
NAVIG8 EXPRESS
Trust

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

Spanish flag flying in the holy land. Palestine. 🇪🇸❤️🇵🇸

[Leyla Hamed @leylahamed]

This Arab reporter kept being interrupted by Spanish fans chanting “Free Palestine” and “Free Gaza” during his live report from Madrid amid Spain’s World Cup celebrations.

[The Cradle @TheCradleMedia]

Local authorities have issued severe warnings regarding the humanitarian and economic toll on Iran's southern coastline, stating that Jask Port has found itself on the "front line of confrontation with the hostile enemy."

According to the regional governor, as reported by Tasnim News Agency, recent United States military attacks in the area have severely impacted local infrastructure, with 100 civilian vessels targeted.

[DaiWW @BeijingDai]

Lost to China in 5G? Ban.
Lost to China in EVs? Ban.
Lost to China in PV? Ban.
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Lose to China in AI now? Nothing new. Ban.

[Carl Zha @CarlZha]

1,052 Mongol wrestlers gathered in one place.

Annual Naadam Festival officially kicked off in Xilingol League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China

[Ryan Rozbiani @RyanRozbiani]

Iran launched a drone with an image of football player Lamine Yamal holding the Palestinian flag.

This guy’s have next level PR skills.

Iran’s very happy Spain won the FIFA World Cup.

[MenchOsint @MenchOsint]

Jordan is the key, the last & most important layer defending Israel.

The increasing rate of direct hits is a direct result of Radars & other U.S. equipment destroyed in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar ... added to the depletion of air defense interceptors, something that couldn't have been achieved in a few days.

During 20 years CENTCOM turned Arab countries into a dome protecting Israel, and Iran is now methodically dismantling it.

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

For the “boom boom Tel Aviv” idiots:

The biggest mistake people make when looking at war is assuming the objective is to hit the enemy’s capital as quickly as possible. That’s political theater, not military strategy.

If you look at the strike map, Iran isn’t behaving like a country trying to maximize headlines but like a military attempting to shape the battlespace.

The targets are not random or insignificant. Iran is dismantling the entire American military ecosystem in the region:

Early warning radar sites.
Air defense systems.
Aviation facilities and hangars.
Logistics hubs.
Fuel and ammunition storage.
Forward operating bases.
CENTCOM support infrastructure.
Bases supporting operations in Syria and Iraq.
Naval and maritime surveillance assets.
Intelligence collection and communications nodes.

Look at jordan as an example. Most people couldn’t point to Tower 22 or Muwaffaq Salti Air Base on a map, yet they’re arguably more important militarily than firing a few missiles at downtown Tel Aviv.

Tower 22 supports operations at Al-Tanf. Muwaffaq Salti hosts American aircraft and coalition operations. Erbil supports intelligence and special operations. Bahrain hosts the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet headquarters. Kuwait is a massive logistics and staging area. Qatar hosts the forward headquarters of CENTCOM and the largest U.S. air base in the Middle East. These are the eyes, ears, and connective tissue of American power projection in the region.

From a military perspective, you don’t begin by punching the strongest part of your opponent. You isolate him.

There are several principles of warfare being applied here:

1. Suppression of enemy support infrastructure.
2. Degradation of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities.
3. Attrition of air defense and interceptor inventories.
4. Disruption of logistics and sustainment.
5. Political pressure on host nations.
6. Shaping the operational environment before attempting anything larger.

The United States does not fight Middle Eastern wars from Washington or even from aircraft carriers alone. It fights them from an interconnected network of bases stretching from Jordan to Qatar to Kuwait to Bahrain. If that network becomes degraded, every sortie, every intelligence feed, every resupply mission, and every interceptor launch becomes more difficult and more expensive.

People screaming “just bomb Tel Aviv” fundamentally misunderstand what modern warfare looks like. Destroying a radar site that enables coalition air operations can be militarily more valuable than causing superficial damage to a symbolic target.

There’s another aspect people are missing: INTERCEPTOR ECONOMICS.

Every Patriot interceptor fired costs millions of dollars. Air defense inventories are finite. Sustained operational tempo places enormous strain on maintenance crews, missile stockpiles, and logistics chains. If an adversary can force you to defend a dozen locations simultaneously, you’ve already begun winning the resource allocation battle.

Historically, successful military campaigns begin with degrading command-and-control, communications, air defenses, and logistics before moving to decisive operations.

Whether one agrees with Iran politically is irrelevant to the military analysis. What we’re witnessing is not random retaliation, it is a deliberate campaign aimed at systematically degrading the regional architecture that allows the United States and its allies to project military power across the Middle East.

Wars are won by destroying capabilities, not by chasing viral videos of missiles landing in capital cities and gay techno songs. The boring targets on a map are often the most important ones

[Jason Smith - 上官杰文 @ShangguanJiewen]

While the US is still debating whether poor people should get life saving medicine and affordable homes, Chinese folks are riding robotic horses and building flying cars.

Those are the facts.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

People ask me why I write the way I write.

This is why.

Because this island was a prison under colonialism and a paradise under sovereignty.

Because my children stand here barefoot and free, in a country that bled for the right to exist on its own terms.

I want them to know the difference between what was given and what was taken back.

Phú Quốc knows that difference better than most.

[China pulse 🇨🇳 @Eng_china5]

Comparison of the Shahed-136 and FLM-136 LUCAS loitering munitions.

[tim anderson @timand2037]

Many dissident Iranians only came to appreciate this great man after his death.

[BreakThrough News @BTnewsroom]

The US-Israel war on Iran has had negative net support amongst US voters since day one. Six months in, it has now officially become the least popular major conflict in US history.

In June, according to a poll conducted by The Economist/Yougov, public opinion on the Iran war sunk to -32% net support – that’s support minus opposition – surpassing the historic -31% recorded in 1973 in the final poll measuring American’s positive feelings about the Vietnam War.

Trump’s war was the first in US history to start with negative net support (-13%), lower than any other war since polling began.

As airstrikes intensify anew, oil and gas prices are rising once again. The Pentagon confirmed three more US service members killed over the weekend, bringing the US death toll to 17 since the war started in February.

[Jacobin @jacobin]

The current freak-out by Donald Trump, J. D. Vance, Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, and other right-wingers about democratic socialism is quite rational.

In socialism, they see a formidable foe. https://t.co/he5ShCxBvf

[Jason Smith - 上官杰文 @ShangguanJiewen]

China's "Stairway to Heaven" on Mount Taihang.

Are you fit enough to make the climb to heaven?

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

Solidarity campaigns have launched the global #BoycottReebok campaign, urging increased public pressure on the sportswear company over its sponsorship of the Israeli Football Association.

The campaign also criticized FIFA for failing to take action despite the deaths of more than 1,000 Palestinian and Lebanese athletes during the war and the destruction of sports facilities in the Gaza Steip.

It honored several members of Palestine's sports community who were killed, including goalkeeper Salim Al-Ashqar, coach Hani Al-Masdar, sports official Mohammed Al-Wuhaidi, and young footballer Fadi Al-Naasan.

[Electronic Intifada @intifada]

Trump has threatened to target critical infrastructure in Iran imminently.

Iran, in turn, has warned it will respond in kind against Gulf countries aligned with the US.

Those countries have “single point of failure economies and electricity grids will go down in minutes” if Iran follows through with those attacks, says @JonElmer
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[RTVC Noticias @RTVCnoticias]

El presidente Gustavo Petro dejó una advertencia al Congreso de la República e hizo un llamado a legislar pensando en el bienestar del país, más allá de las diferencias políticas.

🎙️ “Independientemente del color político, así como lo dice la Biblia, invito al Congreso de la República a trabajar por los últimos del país, que será mejor para los primeros”, afirmó el mandatario.

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